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Fantasies of Neglect - Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction (Hardcover)
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Fantasies of Neglect - Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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In our current era of helicopter parenting and stranger danger, an
unaccompanied child wandering through the city might commonly be
viewed as a victim of abuse and neglect. However, from the early
twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films
have portrayed the solitary exploration of urban spaces as a source
of empowerment and delight for children. Fantasies of Neglect
explains how this trope of the self-sufficient, mobile urban child
originated and considers why it persists, even as it goes against
the grain of social reality. Drawing from a wide range of films,
children's books, adult novels, and sociological texts, Pamela
Robertson Wojcik investigates how cities have simultaneously been
demonized as dangerous spaces unfit for children and romanticized
as wondrous playgrounds that foster a kid's independence and
imagination. Charting the development of free-range urban child
characters from Little Orphan Annie to Harriet the Spy to Hugo
Cabret, and from Shirley Temple to the Dead End Kids, she considers
the ongoing dialogue between these fictional representations and
shifting discourses on the freedom and neglect of children. While
tracking the general concerns Americans have expressed regarding
the abstract figure of the child, the book also examines the varied
attitudes toward specific types of urban children - girls and boys,
blacks and whites, rich kids and poor ones, loners and neighborhood
gangs. Through this diverse selection of sources, Fantasies of
Neglect presents a nuanced chronicle of how notions of American
urbanism and American childhood have grown up together.
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